How to use in-sentence of “sediment”:
– A rhythmite is layers of sediment or sedimentary rock laid down in a repeated pattern.
– During winter, when meltwater and its sediment is reduced and the lake surface freezes, fine clay-size sediment is deposited forming a dark-coloured layer.
– This is unusual compared to samples of sediment from other deep-sea environments, where the percentage of organic-walled foraminifera ranges from 5% to 20%.
– Deposition is followed by squeezing of sediment under its own weight, and cementation.
– In glacial lakes, the sediment may have varves, which are two layers per year that are different colours.
– Marine species are found mostly in between sediment particles, while Landterrestrial species live in the water films around grains of soil.
– Until 1850, Skara Brae lay under years of soil sediment when in the winter of that year a large storm stripped the grass from the large mound known as Skerrabra.
– Stormy weather had washed away the sand, leaving the sediment exposed.Ashton, Nicholas 2014.
Example sentences of “sediment”:
- The sediment is mostly quartz arenite.
- Lowlands usually have warmer, slow-flowing waters carrying lots of sediment and with poor oxygen content.
- Some colonial sea anemones stiffen the mesoglea with sediment particles.
– The sediment is mostly quartz arenite.
– Lowlands usually have warmer, slow-flowing waters carrying lots of sediment and with poor oxygen content.
– Some colonial sea anemones stiffen the mesoglea with sediment particles.
– Gradually this inland sea became a vast freshwater lake and wetlands where sediment flattened its profiles and the marine inhabitants adapted to life in freshwater.
– For this reason, and because of the type of sediment found with the fossils, it is suggested placodonts lived in shallow waters and not in deep oceans.
– Many such rivers meander through a web of islands at the river delta, and bring along a huge amount of sediment in the form of mud, clay and sand.
– They estimated weathering, erosion, sedimentation, and how long it took to turn sediment into hard rock.
– These actions have included reducing the amount of sediment and nutrients getting into the lake.
– The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen which inhibits aerobic decomposition.
– Evidence for this can be found in the north Atlantic sediment cores which show poorly sorted, angular and contain rocks.
– It records sediment from a group of intermountain lakes.
– This lets sediment settle and build up as nutrient-rich mud.
– Arkose is often found with Conglomerate conglomerate deposits where the sediment is made of granite.
– It can erode into sediment or melt into magma.
– On the other side, the three rivers bring the sediment back to sea.
– In bodies of water such as lakes, ponds, and the ocean, sediment builds up slowly, so that the oldest sediment is at the bottom.
– The blocks become covered by sediment the glacier leaves behind.
– Leaves of palms, ferns and sycamores, some showing the insect damage got during their growth, were covered with fine-grained sediment and preserved.
– Rapid burial followed volcanic events, and the fine sediment preserved details.
More in-sentence examples of “sediment”:
– The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of Kata Tjuṯa and Uluṟu, is left over from the erosion of a layer of sediment from the Cretaceous period.
– A stone in the river is reshaped by the water and sediment flowing around it.
– It had a horseshoe-shaped carapace, and probably fed by sifting through the sediment with its round mouth lined with hooked spines.
– Longer and deeper sediment cores are expected soon.
– Valley filling occurs when the amount of sediment produced in a basin exceeds the amount that the river system can carry away.
– As it moves away from the ridge, the crust becomes cooler and denser, while the sediment may build on top of it.
– Stromatolites are sediment structures produced by bacteria.
– Around the person dense regions of sand and sediment form and grip the person.
– Wind and water can create sediment from rocks, and movement of one tectonic plate against another creates enormous heat and pressure which affects rocks greatly.
– Fine sediment is the most abundant product of erosion, which is why mudrocks are so common.
– Newer layers of sediment were added to the old ones.
– The word sediment is also used for material transported by wind or water, and deposited on the surface.
– The deposits of silicasiliclastic sediment alternate with basalt.
– Some sediment from the Sahara Desert is carried across the Atlantic Ocean by wind.
– Microfossils are most common in sediment that forms beneath water, particularly ocean water or lake water.
– From time to time rivers bring down a load of sediment from nearby mountains, covering the swamp.
– Large volumes of pore water must pass through sediment pores for new mineral cements to crystallize and so millions of years are generally required to complete the cementation process.
– It is the process where grains of sediment get stuck together.
– These fossils were preserved in such fine sediment that the fossils were almost perfect, with only a few bones disturbed or missing.
– A river rarely flows in a straight line: it bends around because it drops sediment where it flows most slowly.
– River systems can also be deposition, accumulating sediment within channels and on floodplains.
– In contrast, fossil sites with undisturbed sediment have given rise to important lagerstätten with many impressions of small soft-bodied invertebrates.
– Large tropical rivers like the Paraná RiverParaná, Brahmaputra, Mississippi and the Amazon carry huge amounts of sediment down to the sea.
– It shows that sediment deposition was broken for a time, usually because the land was above sea level at that time.
– Human activities that disturb land can lead to high sediment levels entering water bodies during rain storms due runoff.
– This sediment piles up on the land where the glacier had been, a broad, smooth stretch called an “outwash plain”.
– Winnowing can also describe the natural removal of fine material from a coarser sediment by wind or flowing water.
– Land was eroded by air and water and deposited as layers in the sea; heat then consolidated the sediment into stone, and uplifted it into new lands.
– They can develop where a stream, river, or ocean current Deposition deposits sediment and granular material.
– Such storms, or similar high-energy events, would have mobilized sediment that could be quickly deposited, trapping animals and leading to their preservation.
– It is the sticking together of sediment that forms a rock.
– It increases the high viscosity regions of sediment responsible for quicksand’s “trapping” power.
– Multiple kettle holes can form near each other, and with the ridges and mounds of sediment around them the smooth surface of the sandur becomes irregular.
– These actions churn sediment and cause mixed-sediment slurries to occur.
– At Koobi Fora, there are archaeological sites with evidence of control of fire by “Homo erectus” 1.5 million years ago, with the reddening of sediment that can only come from heating at 200—400°C.
– They were major components of seabed communities and, like modern-day bryozoans, played an important role in sediment stabilization and binding.
– It found increased amounts of sediment and increased levels of nutrients were causing problems.
– Rivers are an important feature of most landscapes, acting as the principal mechanism for the transport of weathered debris away from upland areas and carrying it to lakes and seas, where much of the classic sediment is deposited.
– These minerals become sediment at the bottom of the lake, and some of the rock flour becomes suspended in the water.
– It has only 10% as much sediment as the Nile RiverNile because the Niger’s source is in very old rocks that have little silt.
– The flood that this causes can carry blocks of ice and sediment similar to the glacier-calf activity described above.
– The Nile, perhaps the world’s longest river, carries much less sediment than the others because, part of the way, it runs through less fertile regions than the other great rivers.
– The first appearance of Ehux in the sediment is used as a biostratigraphic marker.
– Lots of sediment sank to the bottom.
– The sediment discharged by the gigantic mouth of the Amazon stains the sea brown for hundreds of miles out to sea.
– Volume of sediment from these rivers is increasing.
– The Notostraca abandoned filter feeding in open water, and took up a benthic lifestyle in muddy waters, taking up food from particles of sediment and preying on small animals.
– Ions carried in groundwater precipitate to form new crystalline material in sediment pores: this is how “sediment” becomes “rock”.
– A varve is a pattern in sediment which is made by annual processes.
- The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of Kata Tjuṯa and Uluṟu, is left over from the erosion of a layer of sediment from the Cretaceous period.
- A stone in the river is reshaped by the water and sediment flowing around it.
